Mohan Gajanan Deshpande vs Dhondiram Hari Chavan And Ors. on 30 April, 1986
In Rama's case the learned Judge has held that a tenant need not make a formal proclamation of his desire to purchase the land under sub-section (1-A) of section 32-F, if proceedings are pending either before any Revenue Authority under the Act or in the High Court on the date of the advent of the Maharashtra Amending Act of 1969 (17th October, 1969) and the tenant has already expressed in these proceedings his desire to purchase the land. Both cases are thus clearly distinguishable of their facts. In the case before me, the first matter that came before the A.L.T. was the 32-G proceedings initiated in 1973. It is not the case of either party that any proceedings were pending before any authority before that year. The benefit in favour of the tenants conferred by the proviso to section 32-F(1-A) had already exhausted itself on 17th October, 1971 and it is an admitted position that before that date, the tenants had not expressed their desire to go in for the purchase.